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| Ordinary differential equations can be solved numerically by analog computers, but partial differential equations cannot, which was very important for von Neumann when building the first computer of the so-called von Neumann architecture.<ref>"1.2 An automatic computing system is a (usually highly composite) device, which can carry out
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| instructions to perform calculations of a considerable order of complexity—e.g. to solve a non-linear
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| partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically." Quoted from: "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by John von Neumann, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.27-75, 1993.</ref>
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